Recruitment to occupational therapy has long been of concern and studies, principally from North America, have identified the factors influencing career choice so that the shortfall of applicants may be addressed. Studies at Brunel University in London have provided United Kingdom data, with the most recent study (Craik and Zaccaria 2003) summarising the views of 444 first-year students. This f...

New instruments iire described for the measurement of both job-related and non-job int-nta! health. These cover two axes of affective well-being, based upon dimensions of pleasure and arousal, and aLso reported competence, aspiration and negative job carry-over. Baseline data are presented from a sample of I6S6 job-holders, and earlier uses ot the well-being scales are summarized. The instrumen...

I want to share with you the usefulness and circumstances surrounding AJOr's May issue on work evaluat.ion. As ajunior occupational therapy student I was scheduled to give a panel presentation on prevocational training skills as part of a class requirement. However, another special event ~\'as scheduled which t.hankfully postponed my presentation until the following week. The extra time gave me...

-'he major challenge facing the profession of occupational therapy today is the critical need for research that validates claims made for the therapist's use of occupations. Although the need for such research in gerontology is perhaps no greater than that in other practice areas, we must grasp the opportunity for occupational therapy to playa critical role in the care of America's aging popula...

Henry Kohler1* and Leila Harhaus2 1Department of Rehabilitation, BG Trauma Center, Ludwigshafen, Germany 2Department of Plastic Surgery of Heidelberg University, BG Trauma Center, Ludwigshafen, Germany *Corresponding author: Henry Kohler, Rehabilitation Centre and Department of BG Rehabilitation and Therapy Management, BG Clinic Ludwigshafen, Ludwig Guttmann Street 13, Ludwigshafen, 67071, Germ...

Following the acceptance of South Africa’s first democratic constitution and subsequent Disability Equity legislation, publications in South African occupational therapy literature, although very limited, indicate that occupational therapists are ideally placed and uniquely skilled to deal with the implementation of legislation and to be key role players in the work place by facilitating employ...

Background and aims: Many workers face significant hazardous workplace exposures, especially indeveloping countries. The objective of this study was to investigate the prevalence of occupational riskfactors and common occupational diseases in Kerman.Methods: This study was based on data from occupational risk factor and disease monitoring systemsavailable at Kerman Provi...

This article reviews and critiques the opportunity discovery approach to entrepreneurship and argues that entrepreneurship can be more thoroughly grounded, and more closely linked to more general problems of economic organization by adopting the Cantillon-Knight-Mises understanding of entrepreneurship as judgment. The article begins by distinguishing among occupational, structural, and function...